Nurse Practitioner Educator

About the role

We are seeking a detail-oriented, clinically trained Advanced Practice Provider (APP) that can provide expertise, education, coaching, and guidance on clinical practice and documentation to improve our clinical outcomes and increase the quality of provider documentation for diagnosis evaluation and quality metrics. This individual will serve as a role model and facilitator within the clinical documentation integrity team and support the leadership team with the execution of the department's strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs clinical chart reviews to ensure documentation accuracy by applying established clinical criteria for diagnosing medical conditions.
• Applies their clinical knowledge to evaluate how provider documentation, lab results, diagnostic information, and treatment plans translate into coded data.
• Analyzes and interprets clinical data to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and/or opportunities for improvement in the clinical documentation and queries the provider using a concurrent query process following ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Compliant Query Writing.
• Communicate with providers and other healthcare team members to clarify information or provide additional documentation when needed.
• Work directly with clinicians to improve the overall quality and completeness of documentation through the query process and/or provider education (correct disease processes and disease severity, complexity, and acuity with an eye towards accurate medical coding).
• Collaborates with team members as part of the clinical review process to promote high accuracy and consistency of results.
• Maintains accuracy and productivity metrics to ensure the team achieves established departmental goals.
• Communicates with DaVita leaders to address documentation issues and trends.
• Participates in all department meetings as scheduled.
• Conduct individual and large group educational sessions for clinicians and medical coders (or other staff as applicable).
• Partner with data analytics, coding, compliance and education departments for onboarding, ongoing and targeted education for all IKC APPs and IKC partner providers on documentation requirements for Medicare risk adjustment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree with a current active clinical license (APRN or PA) (required)
• Current Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) licensure without restriction in state of residence (required)
• CCDS-O or CDIP (required or must be obtained within six months of hire)
• CRC (required or must be obtained within one year of hire)
• 5+ years of clinical experience as a Nurse Practitioner (adult-geriatric or family) or Physician Assistant (preferred)
• 3+ years of clinical documentation improvement experience, coding experience, or equivalent (required)
• 1+ year of experience working with advanced practice providers as well as other clinical and non-clinical staff (required)
• Solid clinical background in evidence-based medicine, including chronic disease management and prevention.
• Experience in ICD-10 coding and documentation requirements and risk adjustment.
• Knowledge of compliant query writing/process.
• Ability to perform a comprehensive chart review of 20-30 medical records daily, with workload variations based on daily tasks.
• Technical experience using EMR systems.
• Proficiency in MS applications (Excel, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Word).
• Fully remote with the ability to travel as needed to present in-person training (travel is 2-4 times/year).

What We’ll Provide

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

Salary Range

The Salary Range for the role is $98,000.00 - $155,000.00/year.